Figurative Language

Author's Note:Today I will be analyzing The Train by Emily Dickinson and I will be talking about the figurative language on the poem and how tone and mood are used and what impact it has on the reader.

"Train", by Emily Dickinson, is about trains and how they ride on the railroad tracks and Emily just uses some figurative language to explain like when she says " I like to see it lap the miles, and lick the valley's up that type of figurative language is personification because it has human and animal traits. The reason Emily used figurative language is to make the tone and mood more exiting.    

In the poem train Emily compared a train and a horse because there both fast and big and she compares them by saying it stops to feed at the tanks that's just like saying when horses feed itself at a stable or when a train stops for fuel at the tanks. She also talks about  the train racing around the mountains just how a horse would if traveling through mountains Emily also tries to not really compare the two and she tries to keep it hidden and suspicious so you wonder what shes talking about.

Most people think poems are boring and just rhyme all the time and they don't this poem Train by Emily Dickinson doesn't really rhyme like some other poems it just uses alot of figurative language. In the first two lines of the poem is I like to see it lap the miles and lick the valley's up that kind of figurative language makes the poem great because nobody likes poems that just have regular words in them like run the valley's up because that would'nt sound as good as it is now. I feel like the author is telling us how she feels about trains and how they move down the railroad track the other type of tone is happy because the poem doesn't show any sadness or anger and she shows how she likes trains and also how she's trying to compare a horse and a train.

If there was no figurative language in this poem people would think this would be not as exciting and it would seem more boring because figurative language just makes it sound better instead of just describing the train with regular boring words.The figurative language "Around the pile of mountains" in the poem has effect on this piece because if Emily just said " around a bunch of mountains" it would be as powerful as it is.

I think this poem is great because it has alot of figurative language and I like how she's comparing a horse and a train and the figurative language affects the tone of the poem because instead of using boring words she used "crawl" and "supercilious". If I were to rate this poem i would give it a 8 out of 10 because she uses alot of figurative language.